In addition to the most commonly used Steam client by players, almost all PC-side game platforms often have some program or network errors, some of which cannot be solved with the solutions found on the Internet.
For example, Origin, which is affectionately called rotten oranges by players, Uplay, which is nicknamed the PlayU platform, and even their successors, EA App and Ubisoft Connect, have been criticized for various tricky and weird faults.
Rotten orange, a bug with a download percentage of more than 100%, still shocks me
Microsoft’s Xbox client, too, cannot escape the inherent curse of this game launcher.
As an XGP user—to be precise, a PGP user on the PC platform, I have a lot of free games, and I can’t help but say more good things about XGP. Every time there is a game worth playing in the game library, I will also Amway PGP to my friends.
The Xbox client, which is required to purchase and use PGP, can be described as the biggest obstacle on the way of Amway PGP. So far, I personally have not encountered any bugs in the Xbox client, but two friends have encountered serious problems.
The first friend was pulled into the PGP pit by me when I was addicted to “Age of Empires” online. I found that I couldn’t download the game and encountered an “unexpected error” with the error code 0x00000001. This friend is a serious programmer. He is not bald, but he has good computer knowledge. At that time, he said that this is a very common error code. He tried all the methods that could be tried, but to no avail. Bought a copy of the Steam version online.
The second friend is a recruit I recently pulled into “Warhammer 40,000: Undertide” to fight against the plague of Nurgle. When he was downloading the game, he came across a dialog asking him to download something called “Gaming Services.”
The game service seems to be the core service that Xbox is responsible for downloading and running games. The previous error of 0x00000001 was also because of something wrong with this thing.
The evaluation of this thing in the Microsoft store is not very good, because players who don’t encounter problems don’t need to visit this page
Even if the friend clicks to download, the dialog box prompting the download will still appear after the prompt “just installed” appears in the lower right corner of the screen. Tried restarting the Xbox, restarting the computer, nothing helped.
After all, I was the one who forcibly pulled my friend into the pit, and I feel that I have this obligation to help fix my friend’s Xbox client.
This friend’s computer knowledge reserve is obviously not as good as that of a programmer, maybe not as much as mine. If I have to say it, I am also a computer idiot. I have experience in cracking games and mods many years ago, and I know what some Windows commands and registry are for.
I believe that many Windows users have neither used nor need to use this registry editor
But I have a theoretically omnipotent search engine, so I can reproduce some methods that my programmer friends have tried. The idea of the method is very simple: first uninstall the game service, delete any registration information and files related to the game service, and finally reinstall it again.
However, the process of searching for commands for this friend, explaining the function of each command, and then entering the command in the correct position kept us busy from dawn to dusk. Because my friend was still hanging on the other two games at the same time, I didn’t dare to turn on remote assistance, I just talked with him in group chat and voice. I couldn’t find other people in the group to help, because the programmer is not in this group, and other people may not understand what those instructions are for.
The most time-consuming step is to delete the remaining files of the game service on the C drive. To do this, you need to obtain the user permissions of the C drive files. After changing the permissions, some files cannot be deleted. In the end, I asked him to open a certain brand of computer housekeeper that he hadn’t opened for more than 700 days, and used the file shredding function to solve the problem.
Computer idiot speaks: object, where is the object
Four hours later, we made it to the point of reinstalling, and we were still presented with the hopeless “Download Game Services” dialog. I was already planning to give up, and sent the last string of unused codes. This string of codes can theoretically allow the app store to re-identify the game service.
A miracle happened. After entering this string of codes in the Powershell window and restarting the computer for the nth time, the annoying dialog box disappeared, and the download progress bar of “Warhammer 40K: Dark Tide” finally moved.
It was already 8:30 in the evening, and it would take hours to download the game, and other people in the group were inviting him to play “Apex Legends”. It was a Saturday, and we thought we could fight again on Sunday, so we gave up and went our separate ways.
It’s just that when I woke up on Sunday morning, I started to have a fever, and the antigen test was positive. In reality, I went to Solo one-on-one with Nurgle, and I didn’t feel like playing games for a few days.
After recovering, I have always wondered about the fifth steamed bun question: If there were no tossing for the first four hours, would the last code from the good-hearted people on Douban be useful?
Now, my friend still encounters that dialog box, and every time he has to enter the string of Douban codes and restart the computer, he can download and open the game on the Xbox. I speculate that there is something that will shut down the running game service, or automatically erase the identification information of the game service. I even suspected that the anti-cheat system of a certain game did it, but there is no evidence.
This kind of case can’t find any solution on the search engine, maybe it can only be solved by redoing the system. But the original purpose of playing “Dark Tide” has been achieved, and I can’t think of a reason to force my friends to redo the system.
After all, this is a problem left over from Microsoft’s history. Even professional programmers can’t solve it, and it’s useless for me to worry about it. Not to mention, not everyone is willing or able to spare four hours of their precious time to fix a game. Perhaps for computer and program idiots including me, being able to successfully open the game should be something worth celebrating.
It turns out that another important role of XGP is to train young people to modify the registry in the new era. ——Caesar ZX
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